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Francisco de Castro: Localizationism, intelligence and the frontal lobe

This article addresses the largely unknown legacy of Francisco de Castro regarding the neurological sciences. His essay "Psychogenic Cortical Centers", written in 1881 for his admission to the Imperial Academy of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, is a refined appreciation of the theory of localized cortical functions that was in evidence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Interview with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa: Multimedia Artists and Art Educator

Catarina Carneiro de Sousa aka CapCat Ragu is a Portuguese artist born in 1975 at Oporto, Portugal, with a background on Painting and Art Studies. In 1999 she was a founding member of the association Caldeira 213, an artistic coalition that self-managed a non-profit art space in Oporto, Portugal, which between 2000 and 2002 exhibited the most cutting edge projects by young emerging artists. Cat...

Caetano Reis e Sousa: harnessing DC power

DCs can either magnify or mute immunity by sampling antigens throughout body and presenting them to lymphocytes in combination with secondary signals that either activate or tolerize the responding cell. This quality, which makes DCs a handy weapon against both cancer and autoimmune disease, spurred Caetano Reis e Sousa to dissect the pathways that control different DC functions. Reis e Sousa f...

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828). Self-portrait with Doctor Arrieta (1820).

oya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and care with which he saved his life in his acute and dangerous illness suffered at the end of the year 1819 at the age of 73. He painted it in 1820 " (1) reads the inscription at the bottom of Goya's self-portrait on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases. An affirmation of medical practice, the painting is also an acknowledgmen...